Harry ferguson



(No Model.)

H. FERGUSON. RING FOR UPHOLSTERY, @68- No. 395,127. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

UNiTEn STATES atent trier.

HARRY FERGUSON, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

RING FOR UPHOLSTERY, &,G.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,1 27, dated December 25, 1888. Application filed May 1, 1888. Serial No. 272,482. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY FERGUSON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Metal Rings t'orUpholstery and other Purposes, of which the following isa spmilication.

The object of this invention is to obtain a strong and light ornamental metal ring suitable for the suspension of curtains from poles and for other purposes at a small expense by using a superior metal for the exterior surface of the ring and an inferior metal to give the ring the necessary strength.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a ring C(HlSblliCllOtl according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an axial section of the same. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the hollow metal lining. liig. 4 is a central sectional view representing the lining as partly formed and illustrating the manufacture of the ring, and Fig. 5 is a correspomling section of the partly-Formed shell.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the shell of the ring, oi brass or other metal; l the separate hollow lining, of tin-plate or other metal; and U, the eyewire. The shell and the hollow lining are formed of two rings or annular disks of sheet metal, the ring or disk of which the shell. is formed being of larger external diameter and of smaller internal. diameter than that of. which the lining is formed. The ring or disk of which. the lining is to be formed is first struck up, spun, or otherwise brought to the annular trimgh-like form of transverse section shown at b b in Fig. i byturning back the inner and outer edges. The edges 1) are afterward drawn or brought toward each other, as shown in liig. 13, as close together as practicable.

The ring or disk of which the shell A is formed struck up, spun, or otherwise brought to the annular trough-like form of transverse section. shown. at a in Fig. 5 by turning back. the inner and outer edges a. The hollow lining shown in Fig. 3 is then in l sorted into the trough-like cavity (t, Fig. 5, of

the piece which is to form the shell, with the seam formed by the edges I) inward, and the edges (1. are then turned in over the said lining B and brought close together, as shown in Fig. 2, thus completing the ring, the seam formed by the meeting of the edges a being on the opposite side of the ring to the seam formed by the edges 7/ of the shell. The ring thus composed of the shell A and the inclosed hollow lining B may be made very strong at small expense, because the lining may be of as great a thickness as maybe desirable, and the outer shell, A, may be made (it/very light metal.

The hole for the eye-wire is formed by drilling or otherwise through the inner and outer sides of the ring, and the eye-wire, not yet having the eye formed in it, but having the head (.1 previously formed, is inserted through the said holes from the inside of the ring, and the eye is formed on the outside of the ring after the headed wire has been so inserted tin-(nigh the metal. The wire thus inserttwl and secured is very firmly attached. to the ring and assists in giving stability thereto by securing the shell and lining together.

The ring is represented as oi' circulartransverse section; bntniy invention isnotlimited to this form of transverse section, as it is ob vious that the ring may be made in the same way ol any other transvm-se sectional form.

\Vhat I claim as m y invention, and desi re to secure by Letters Patent, iis- A metal. ring composed oi. a seamed out er tubular shell made of a single piece of metal bent into a ring shape and a separate seamed tubular shell made of a single piece of metal bent into a ring shape and ineloscd within said first-named shell, said shells having their seams on different sides of the ring, substzm tially as specified.

HARRY FERGUSON.

iiitnesses:

MINER'I LINDEMAN, FREDK. HAYNES. 

